You sir, are a troll.
Please take your languid liberal platitudes and go back to your friends at DU.
As a veteran of Vietnam and Operation Enduring Freedom, I take offense to your exalted opinions about which wars should and should not have been fought.
If you have a combat record, I will reconsider what I just wrote.
Hmmm... So disagreeing with our boys being placed in harm’s way by four left wing presidents (and yes, Bush was left wing in my book) for questionable gains or reasons makes me a DU troll?
Tell me exactly, what did the U.S. gain from Korea? I would say the situation there is as unstable as ever after the loss of more than 36,000 American lives.
And what about the war you bravely fought in? What did the U.S. gain after more than 58,000 of your brothers died? Did we remove Communism from the peninsula?
What have we gained from Iraq after loosing more than 4000 American lives? If anything, we removed the one lunatic that was keeping the neighboring lunatics in check.
In any of these wars, did we gain precious resources for our country? Did we gain territory? Did we gain safety? Did we even remove the general threat that perpetrated our involvement in the first place?
You tell me my opinion doesn’t count as I have not experienced combat. You are correct that I have not fought a battle, but I do not see how that negates my own mind from forming an OPINION. While I have not served in combat, I have served. I am a veteran, having spent four years as an enlisted man and twelve years as a line officer in the United States Navy - including command of my own vessel. I followed a long line of family members who have served - and died - in every American war since the Revolution. My father, who just passed away, flew A-6 Intruders in the Navy, and T-38s for NASA as part of the Astronaut training program. While I don’t speak from the position of combat, I do speak from the position of being a loyal American conservative veteran - who doesn’t always believe the things our government forces our boys to do - and die for - is the correct, and honorable, thing to do.